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International conference of sports law students 14th December 2021
On Tuesday 14th December 2021 the Centre for Sports Law Research of the Edge Hill University (UK) and the Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports Diplomacy Centre of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law have organized an online international students conference on various sports law topics. The topics have been presented in a comparative manner, UK and Croatian prospective, and were on: Combatting Football Hooliganism: Legal Responses, The Labour (Employment) Status of Athletes, Sports Injuries and the Law: Actions in Negligence and Sports Violence and the Criminal Law.
On behalf of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law the students who participated as speakers were: Gabrijel Prpić, Iman Mrkić, Riccardo Sgardelli and Leonarda Šenvald, all students form the course Sports Law of the IX semester of the Integrated study programme in law.
We are extremely proud of the way how our students have demonstrated a high level of legal knowledge in sports law and have, in a competent manner, equally professionally presented their topics in Legal English, like their colleagues from UK did. It has been concluded that this initiative will repeat regularly on an annual basis since it is in students’ interest to have such an experience but also because it has huge impact on the international visibility of the Faculty.
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Meeting with representatives and teachers of the Faculty of Law in Mariboru (Slovenia)
On December 13, 2021, as part of the Providentia Studiorum Iuris project, an online meeting was held with representatives of the Faculty of Law in Maribor, Slovenia, which is also the last of a total of four scheduled meetings.
The meeting was attended by more than twenty teachers from the Faculty of Law in Rijeka and the Faculty of Law in Split who exchanged experiences with Slovenian colleagues on different models of practical forms of teaching in law studies and opportunities to strengthen practical competencies of law students.
Administrative Dispute in the Central and Eastern European States - Collected Papers
In September 2021, a collection of papers entitled "Administrative Dispute in Central and Eastern Europe - Collected papers'' was published in English, as a co-publication of Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka and the High Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia. The publication includes papers of legal scholars and administrative judges that were presented at the international conference held in Opatija on June 3 and 4, 2019. The publication is divided into four parts. The first part refers to the presentation i.e., summary of the international conference. The second part analyses the matter of administrative dispute from the legal doctrine standpoint, while the third part considers the same matter from the point of view of the administrative judges, as legal practitioners. The fourth part considers application of the norms of administrative dispute in the field of the right to access information. This Publication is considered to be interesting and helpful for the academic community, judges, lawyers and all other legal professionals who encounter the issue of conducting administrative disputes in their professional work.
15th Sport&EU Conference Book of Proceedings is published
| After being a proud host of the 15th Sport&EU Conference in mid-June 2021, the Faculty of Law in Rijeka published a Book of Proceedings which is available for reading and downloading here. |
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Dean Crnić-Grotić Spoke at the Council of Europe high-level conference on minority rights
On 29 June 2021, the Council of Europe, under the Hungarian presidency, organised the high-level conference Council of Europe norms and standards on national minority rights: Results and challenges, at which the dean of the Faculty fo Law in Rijeka prof. dr. sc. Vesna Crnić-Grotić participated in her capacity of the Chair of the Committee of Experts on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The conference was opened by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić.
The aim of the conference is to assess the achievements and to identify the remaining challenges in the field of minority rights protection in Europe. It is dedicated to the Council of Europe’s norms and standards in the field of national minorities and builds on the conference held on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages Minorities and Minority Languages in a Changing Europe organised by the Croatian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers in June 2018.
More on the conference is available here.
5th Rijeka Sports Law, Policies & Diplomacy Days (14th – 19th June 2021)
From 14th to 17th June 2021, the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka and the newly established Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports Diplomacy Centre, together with the most prestigious European sports association, British Association Sport&EU, organized an online international scientific conference "15th Sport&EU Conference".
There were almost 100 papers with around 300 participants, and the conference was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism and Sport of the Republic of Croatia.
Special guests, the keynote speakers at this year's conference were Mrs. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (International Olympic Committee Member and former President of the Republic of Croatia), Mr. Julien Zylberstein (Chief of Governance & Stakeholder Affairs and Senior adviser of the President at UEFA), Prof. Marko Ilešič, Ph.D. (Judge at the CJEU), Prof. Vesna Tomljenović, Ph.D. (Judge at the General Court, CJEU), Prof. Michele Colucci, Ph.D. (FIFA DRC Member and Wolter Kluwer Encyclopaedia on Sports Law Editor), and Prof. Siniša Petrović, Ph.D. (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law and CAS Arbitrator). A detailed program of the conference can be found here.
3rd Rijeka Tax Law Day held at our Faculty, April 30th 2021
On April 30th 2021 our Faculty hosted the international colloquium titled „3rd Rijeka Tax Law Day: Tax Litigation in the EU Internal Market“, organized by the Department of Corporate and Financial Law in co-operation with the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), Amsterdam. A number of topical issues in the area of international tax disputes, with the special emphasis on the rules of the EU Directive on tax dispute resolution, were analysed by renowned tax scholars and practitioners. We are particularly proud that, along with Prof. Dr. Pasquale Pistone, a keynote lecture in the conference was delivered by Prof. Dr. Vesna Tomljenović, a long-time professor at our Faculty and now a Judge at the EU General Court. The event signified continuation of the tradition started in 2018, aimed at contributing to the international debate on key tax issues and linking tax theory with practice.
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